Comments on: Floods in summerland

By: Weekly Headlines | Deep Brazil

Weekly Headlines | Deep Brazil — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:57:50 +0000

[...] you are interested to learn more about this, check a post I wrote recently about the main causes and the impact of floods in several parts of the [...]

By: Weekly Headlines « DEEP BRAZIL

Weekly Headlines « DEEP BRAZIL — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:13:59 +0000

[...] of the temperature of the South Atlantic waters. I wrote about the violent resulting floods recently. Época goes with the progress with the science of bionics and Isto É goes for an unexpected [...]

By: Markuza

Markuza — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:25:38 +0000

the tiles are cooler- too cool! They pull all the heat out of my feet! although I’m pretty used to it by now.

By: Weekly Headlines « DEEP BRAZIL

Weekly Headlines « DEEP BRAZIL — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:14:33 +0000

[...] BRAZIL Way beyond Carnival « Floods in Summerland Weekly Headlines January 9, 2010 Science and technology set the pace for the rest of the [...]

By: Deep Brazil

Deep Brazil — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:09:11 +0000

More than once I questioned people who cemented their yards about their reasons. Normally they answer it is easier to clean (?!). About the wood floors, I can only guess: in beach towns, the wood may get rotten. And tiles are cooler (in the temperature sense). Anyways, these decisions don’t make any sense to me.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:46:35 +0000

Way to go there. Good piece of journalistic writing. However, some of the explanations offered by the so called experts sound more like excuses to me, but I have to agree 100% that deforestation of not only the river banks but also grasslands is a great catalyst for flooding and mudslides. The amount vegetation in/on the soil not only serves to bind the soil together, but also to slow down the passage of moving water. Bodies of water moving through grass covered soil is less rapid and much less destructive than water moving without any opposing force. And we all know the destructive force of rapidly moving bodies of water. That’s why municipalities make legislation governing the percentage of your proerty that can be paved. Except in the flood proned regions of Brazil of course.

By: Markuza

Markuza — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:01:26 +0000

Great post- I read recently that 100,000 residents here in Salvador live in danger of mudslides. It is terrifying. I think it is also difficult for people who have not been to tropical countries to understand the sheer volume of rain that can fall in a very short time- we have had some bad experiences with leaks and I still get tense when we get a particularly hard rain. One thing you mentioned particularly struck me as it’s something I’ve been thinking about lately- why is it that Brazilians want to pave over their yards? My brother in law recently bought a house, razed everything in the yard and cemented it all over. I have no open earth in my own house and it makes me terribly sad. In a marginally related matter I’ve noticed that Brazilians have a tendency to rip out wood floors and put in tiles- why is that?